MIDWEST GAMING CLASSIC 2008 [its over :( ]

[bicostp]

Maybe next year or in '10 man that sounds weird... I'll go and bring my videography skills. That is, I'll hold the camera up as high as I can while standing on a chair to get a pan shot of the museum room, and use a modified tripod on casters (or sit in an office chair and scoot along) for the "walking" shot near the beginning of the film. And maybe also narration! Who knows...

One proviso: every time I appear in a picture or video clip, I must have some kind of obstruction in front of me (like a controller, laptop screen, or creatively placed foreground object), like Wilson on 'Home Improvement'. Why? Because!

Overall, MGC '08 looked like fun!

[cowsgoquack101]

Ha! I was there, and nobody said "Hi"?!

[wallydawg]

remember the "Stain" by the jacuzzi?

next year we should all go roller skating. kittens and i went and it was the most fun i've ever had making a fool out of myself.

was the roller skating at a indoor rink business or just a outdoor rink in a park or something?

I'd always be down for some roller hockey

[Triton]

there was a rink right next to the hotel.

[samus]

yes! we have recruits! it was a few buildings away from the hotel. about 6 bucks to get in and get skates. apparently they had rollerblades (of which i know how to use) and i didn't know until we left.

the place was full of teenagers and a few old guys in bellbottoms that showed up everybody.

[Sparkfist]

Aww man! I saw all of you guys and didn't even know who you were! I didn't get to talk to Ben either . (I had my eye on a SNES for $35) I was sitting in the front row right next to the guy filming Ben's presentation. Too bad I couldn't make it today. Ah well, there's always next year.

Wow you were sitting next to me and you didn't even say "Hi"?

Yeah the whole weekend was blast!

I am working on getting the video off my camcorder, you know where everyone introduces themselves. But I Think the reason I'm having problems is that I broke a cardinal rule, don't over write another video clip. I can still get it using a video capture card and just video out from the camcorder. I hope to have it by next week, if not spam my mail to get my butt in gear.

Buy List
Atari Flashback 2.0
Missile Command (Atari)
"The Classics" T-shirt
Mini SNES
N64
Ocarina of Time

As for all of you complaining about driving. I had to drive 6 hours to drop off gannon, then 8, yes 8 hours, to drive home. That's a total of 14 hours! And I know that Iowa is not OVER 9000 miles away. So stop complaining.

See you all next year.

[Triton]

haha hippy rollerdisco dudes! i cant wait for next year this was so much freaking fun! maybe i will actually FINISH a portable by then lol
buy list (pic coming later today)
N64
aero gauge - 5$
snowboard kids - gift from skyone! (11$ value absolutly free! lol)
war gods - 5$
tony hawk pro skater - 5$
vigilante 8 - 5$
vigilante 8 second offence - 10$
saturn
vampire hunter (jp) aka darkstalkers revenge - 10$
dreamcast
jojos bizzare adventure - 10$
segaCD
2 random japanese games i forget which - 2$

gamecube modem - 5$
random famicom game - 1$
ps2 to usb cable - 1$
gunstar heroes (genesis) - 18$ boxed, in your face josh!
gamcube demo disc - 1$
MP:hunters first hunt - 1$
4 anime DVDs - 2$ each
Tiger R-zone - 1$ its the stupidest thing ever (and lol OVER 9000!)
and shockslayers n64P free from skyler, im going to make it work and look better, he used like half a gallon of hotglue tho!

probably some other crap i cant remember!

most epic win ever would be if just about everybody that stayed in the hotel all lived in once city, it would be a blast! you should all move to ottumwa and live in the apartment above my store when i get it!

[KittensAndBunnies]

We'll be talking about this forever.

[wallydawg]

We'll be talking about this forever.

up until the beginning stages of MGC 09!

[wallydawg]

Gannon needs to post what Pokemon cards he bought.

[SpongeBuell]

Thanks all for the memories, I'm actually planning on writing about this for a sociology paper (nothing bad will be written... not that I know of, at least. Haven't written it yet )

[martyg]

Just caught the podcast, funny to see it start in my area of the museum (all the stuff from the Asteroids competition poster to the TI99/4A 2 rows over was my stuff).

Those aren't pong ripoffs, those are all Atari branded pong machines, that was the Atari section of the museum.

That red and rainbow colored 2600 is a Kee Games 2600. For those not familiar, Kee Games was a self-created competitor that Nolan created in 1973 to get his arcade games more sales/distribution. At that time in the industry, vendors usually only signed with a specific brand/manufacturer. So he had his next door neighbor (Joe Keenan) as president and gave him one of his early (and top) engineers, Steve Bristow. The plan worked, but Kee actually started becoming more popular at the time (Kee created Tank, and a few other originals besides releasing clones of Atari created coins). They eventually merged back in to Atari in '75.

During '79-'80, Atari looked at reviving the Kee name to once again increase market share (at the time 2600's were sold under Atari and Sears Telegames versions), and result is the Kee 2600 proto.

Other protos in the area included the 1090XL Expansion Box for the Atari 8-bit computers, and the Ataritel video phone.

There was also a pre-release "club" version of the 520st on display in the Tramiel era section.

[Triton]

awesome! i thought that kee atari was probably the coolest atari i have ever seen lol

[ganonbanned]

[samus]

lolwut